CPJ concerned about Cameron's Guardian comments

October 16, 2013 4:53 PM ET

New
York, October 16, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's statement today in which he urged members of
parliament
to investigate whether the Guardian had broken the law or damaged
national security by publishing the NSA files.

"Prime
Minister Cameron suggested today that the Guardian
has damaged national security
or broken the law, but he provided no evidence whatsoever to support these
claims," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said. "Today's
statements and the suggestion that the Guardian be criminally
investigated are deeply chilling."

Cameron's
statements come in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's detention, harassment,
and confiscation of files and electronic equipment from David Miranda, partner
and assistant to Guardian reporter
Glenn Greenwald,
at Heathrow international airport in August. London Metropolitan Police held
Miranda under Britain's anti-terror law, and aggressively questioned him about
the Guardian's work on the Snowden
files, CPJ research shows.

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